1935-08-02 — Page 3

ARE SHORT SKIRTS COMING BACK?

FAMOUS DESIGNER GIVES HIS OPINION

BY CAPT.EDWARD MOLYNEUX

T this season of the year, less black satin, and, to wear with them,

Athan of the

white sllic polo shirt.

bench wear.

summer

THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST

ARTIFICIAL LIFE EXPLAINED

1935

BRITAIN NEAR TO

ZERO HOUR

BY MORRIS GILBERT By August 2, 1914, there is no mistaking the ominous war, clouds rolling up on every European horl

war lorda

ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE o Ministries and

TRIUMPH

CHAMBER OF

LIFE.

BY PROF. D. F. FRASER- HARRIS

Sensational news comes from New York that an apparatus has

organis

bean perfected whereby from a dead body can be kept alive not for a few hours but for days.

The inventors are Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Instl- and women in tute of Medical Research,

Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh.

presentation of the winter colles-

The Idea was good and practical Lions, designers are not apt to be for exercises at home, but it struck talkative about any innovations they want to launch. I for one, me that it would also be a splendid I made a moda) on am still in the experimental stage idea, made in white tussore, for with my designs and expect to modify my ideas right up to the those lines, and that season shorts beaches and have since moment the collection is presented. Put in their first appearance on

However, this much I can say: No serisational change in skirt been adopted by the whole of

fashion. length is taking place this season. Even if some of the leading coutuOn another occasion a friend who riers here in Faris should take it is internationally considered to be

of the smartest into their heads to launch a sudden one and radical change in the length of Society complained about the long skirts, I am pretty certain it would evening dress with trains that had have no success. Women know been worn for the last few seasons what they want in these days, and She said that this type of dress you can be pretty certain that they was all very well for house wear would never wear ankle length but that at restaurants when she wanted to dance, trains were a bore skirts for morning or sports.

Before the War, Paris dress I have kept this in mind, and in makers were very little short of future I think you will find that sartorial dictators. Fashions, free trains on evening dresses will quently unpractical and often un-Anished, except for the most formal lovely, were almost imposed on occasions. smart women, and they not only

It is by working out new Ideas stood for it (they were often unable to sit down), but they soomed to in this way that one is able to keep enjoy being treated in this manner, modern fashion sane. Smart wo- To-day, bolleve me or not, it is the men to-day are not going to submit women themselves who impose their to wearing unsuitable clothes. That wishes, their needs and their whims is why, in my opinion, the length of on the designer, and we are only day skirts, at any rate, will stay too glad to listen and adapt.

more or less as it is now, not only this season but for many seasons to come.

After all, it is they who adopt. It seems to me this is the way it Our job is not to should be. dictate, but to reallee what styles women are wanting and to provide

them.

DISCUSSION

FORECAST

I think you can take the following fashion forecasts as authoritative: For sports wear and day wear Apart from my Instinct for de-skirts will be definitely short, even sign, I have many real and valued shorter than they are at present.

women

friends among the leaders of By thla I naturally do not mean fashion here in Paris, and also in the knee-length horrors London and New York, who often wore a few years ago, but about 13 come up to see me in my atelier to inches from the ground. discuss dresses they are wanting!

For afternoon dresses ankle for some special occasion.

I then design the dress, and length or a little longer will be afterwards it is adapted into a right. model which is shown to and order- There will be two evening-dress ed by women in general,

allhouettes: the slim straight line Here is an example of what 1 with skirts just to the ground, and the full-skirted evening drosa, which will be the same length.

mean.

Some years back Lady-came to soc me, telling me she wanted However, we have another month something practical to wear when ahead of us, and many modifications she did her physical exercise. She and surprises may come about, but made a rough sketch on the back in principle I feel fairly certain the changes will only be of an envelope, which we decided that could be worked out in the way of modifications and not drastic altera. pleated shorts. We made them in tiens.

Catching young storks is a task requiring patlance of the East Pruisiana who are sending the birds to other parts of Germany to breed a alock for all the country.

the airman.

fessor

hastily compose their final ultima tunis....

Rome. The council of ministers confirms the neutrality of Italy:

Brussela. 7 p.m.-The German Ambassador hands the Belgian Foreign Minister a German ultima- tum. Germany, it declares, por Buaded that the French army would pass through Belgium, determines to prevent "an enemy attack."

forcsocs

**hostile Germany attitudo on Belgium's part, and will respect its territorial integrity at the end of the 'war if Belgium. maintains "frichdly neutrality.” If Belgium denios free passage for German troops, Germany will con- sider Belgium as an enemy...

ΠΟ

King Albert of Belgium rojects the ultimatum. At the same time he appeals to King George for a diplomatic intervention.

London. Midday. Bir Edward Grey learns of the rejection of the ultimatum.

•

In Parliament that afternoon, KING GEORGE and king AL. be exposes the facts of the Anglo- French military and naval conven- BERT

STOOD SOLIDLY GERMANY'S AGAINST

ULTI. tion, hitherto undisclosed, torming it a simple entente" and not an MATUM.

Then, "alliance."

suddenly, be reveals the terms of Germany's ruthless ultimatum, in violation of the guarantees of neutrality In Many years ago the late Pro-

Paris-Learning that German force since 1839. Ernest Starling, of

Into wore penetrating patrols

Sir Edward Grey demands of University College, London, de-French territory, Premier Viviani Berlin the withdrawal of the signed an apparatus for keeping protests to the German Ambassador. ultimatum to Belgium, Falling a alive the heart and lungs of 2.30 p.m. The 10-kilometre retire- satisfactory answer, the British dead cat. This method should not ment of French troops from the ambassador was

in-passports. be confused with a quite different French frontier, previously one, namely that of Professor Ostituted as a mark of goood faith, S. Gibbs, a Leicester man, now of is lifted.

Paris hears that German troops Georgetown University, Washing-

catare penetrating Luxemburg. ton, whereby the heart of was replaced by a rubber bag which for some hours maintained an artificial circulation throughing access to the organ and finally

| killing it, the still living animal.

of

A

HEART BEATING Physiologists have, courec, known for a long time that such an organ as the heart of a cold- beat for blooded animal could many hours after the death of the

This is a triumph of aseptic technique, for everything-blood, air, instruments, apparatus-munt all be germless.

to demand his

Berlin. Bethmann-Hollweg, de- scribes the treaty of guarantee of Belgian neutrality "a simple scrap of paper."

of

H. K. GOVERNOR

new

HIGH STATESMANSHIP

NEEDED

Shanghai, August 2. The appointment to the Into this "Chamber of Life" no animal that owned it.

micro-organisms enter, and hence vacant Governorship of Hongkong a statesman of pre-eminent Fishermen and sportsmen know in that sterile chamber nothing is qualifications, who would assume

+ cold-

present to compromise the vitality the duties of rapporteur to the Bri- blooded animal as the shark, for that the heart of such

for we have longPacife for due guidance of British instance, will beat for many hours of the surviving organ. This is tish Government on events in the after the shark as a whole is dead. what is new,

article in the North China Daily The hearts of anakes, vipers, and known that by profusing arterial policy is suggested in a leading reptiles such as tortoises will beat blood through an excised organ or News of to-day. strongly long after their owners limb the organ or liab would live as are no more. One of the simplest truly as when these were part and experiments in the physiological laboratory is to kil: a frog, cut parcel of the now dead organism.

We can imitate perfectly the out its heart, and feed that heart

as before by the

contacts, with sheep's blood, when we can pulsating blood in the arteries

Hongkong has close keep it alive and actively beating which returns for quite 24 hours.

velns, and hence there is no reason uncertain in their definition, with why, since the organ is supplied China through the Kwangtung with plenty of good blood, it should Provincial Government. not continue to act as it previously did when in the body.

tell

But this life after the death of the owner of an organ is true of other organs than the heart, only it is comparatively easy to

ANCIENT PROBLEM when a heart is allye because we can see it beating. It is not near-

The American apparatus must be ly so easy to be sure about, any, the liver, because we cannot see very efficient, for we are told that it doing anything.

one experiment the thyroid gland of some mammal has lived for twenty days after the death of the animel that owned it..

in

It is contended that his relations could be adjusted so as in nowise to diminish the authority of the Nanking and Ambassadors in Tokyo.

am- both

Properly directed the Colony's policy could be a, valuable bassadorial inspiration to countries. It is impossible to which ignore geographical facts bring this island with its mainland appendages, into ruch Intimate. association with China, yet with a muddled sense of defentiam and self-sufficiency, Hongkong, under Nerves and arterica, we have long the direction of Whitehall, man- hours after the animal that owned known, can live many days postages to perform, "that supreme act it is dead, for if the liver be sup-mortem, and even the brain, that of myopic aloofness." plied with pure oxygenated blood, most sensitive mass of nerve-cells.

THE "SURVIVORS"

Physiologists, however, know that the liver can live for many

The administration of Hongkong

it will continue to do in a glass by far the most vulnerable in the Ivessel what it did in the body of body, has been kept alive, long calla for no special qualities which the animal-namely, secrete some enough for the physiologists to cannot be secured by the appoint- officer under the bile, which is one of its many satisfy themselves that it was stillment of an

Colonial Office, functions.

alive.

A vigorous policy of co-operation Organs which after the death The theoretical implications of between Hongkong and China is of the body go on doing what they this "Chamber of Life" are ex- the urgent need, and it is essential have always, done are called tremely Interesting, because there that Hongkong's important In- "surviving" organs.

is no valid reason why a surviving tereats, and the benefits which it brain, for instance, should not re- can confer on the Far East, should Now the troable in the past hastain its consciousness since it is be brought within the scope been that this post-mortem life being supplied with plenty of pure active Sino-British friendship. I could not be exhibited indefinitely blood under sufficient pressure." -

For that purpose Great Britain because the isolated organ became invaded by bacteria whose polsons ultimately killed it.

of

on the

In some respects the "Chamber requires statesmanship of Life" brings us nearer to the spot, and the requirement may be a man of comprehension of the physical con-beat met by inducing

qualifications to What the American biologists ditions, necessary to maintain local pre-eminent have discovered Is à method of life, but it cannot be said to help assume extended responsibilities preventing these ever-present us to solve the age-long problem in association with the Governor-

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